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APPENDIX: How to apply the Falcon Programming Language License to your work

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APPENDIX: License commentary

First of all, thanks for considering using The Falcon Language for
Your job, or to embed it into Your application, or to use it for any
other reason. The Falcon Programming Language License
explains what You are allowed to do with Falcon and what You are
supposed (and allowed) not to do. Since the legal jargon may be cryptic,
You are provided here with a little resume of the License. It is important
that You read and accept the License, as this resume hasn't any legal
valence, and is provided only for the reason to express clarifications and
examples that cannot find their place in the formal document.

The License grants You the rights to use the Source code of Falcon and
its various components in any way; You can study it, You can copy it,
You can modify it, and You can even sell it, but You can't change the
license under which it is distributed: even if You sell it, You have to
provide the customers with the source code of Falcon and to grant them the
same rights You have on it.

The License also grants Your copyrights and intellectual rights for any
modification or addition You may want to apply to Falcon. In case or
addition and modifications, the License binds You to provide the user
with the information that the original program, that is Falcon, was
modified by You and what are the changes or the additions that You applied.

Also, even if You can freely distribute, or even charge a fee, for Your
derived work, You MUST apply the Falcon Programming Language License to
Your modifications, and distribute them under the same terms. In other
words, Your modifications, if made public, must be provided or available
in source code.

The license also grants You the right to embed Falcon in any application.
Here You are granted the right to pick the terms and licenses You prefer,
and to distribute Your embedding application without providing its source
code. Even if significant portions of Falcon are in line functions, and even
if You decide to statically link Falcon in Your application, this doesn't
make it a "Derivative Work" of it: Your Embedding application is free to
embed Falcon "as is" as it wish, without any requirements in terms of
source distribution. You can also modify Falcon for Your specific needs and
THEN embed Your modified version; the modified version of Falcon is under
Falcon License, and must be made available in source code (or be proposed
as a Contribution to the Falcon Committee), but Your Embedding application
can still be distributed under Your preferred terms. The License has only
a requirement that is demanded on Your Embedding application: in case you
don't distribute your embedding application isn't made available in
source code, You HAVE to
state somewhere (in a place that CAN possibly be seen by the average user)
that You are embedding Falcon and the reason for that. In example, You may
state "ProgramX uses the Falcon Programming Language to automatize the
Gamma procedure".

About the scripts, which are more or less what a scripting language is
for, You are granted the right to apply the license You prefer. As Falcon
is also a script "compiler", You may even retain from distributing the
script sources, and apply closed-source license to Your script-based
application or to the scripts that are embedded in Your embedding
application. However, if You don't distribute the script sources, and you use
Falcon or another application covered by the same license to run them, You are
again required to state somewhere in Your documentation or where
the user can read it that You are using "Falcon" (or the derivative work
you used), and more or less why You are doing it. For a pure Falcon application,
You can just state "This application is written in Falcon".
In example, if You use Falcon to drive a web site, and You don't want Your site
visitors to ever see Your scripts, You have to put somewhere a reading like
"Powered with Falcon".

What You cannot do is to claim that any thing You learnt from Falcon
is Yours: especially, You are forbidden to patent any element that is
found in Falcon. Another thing that You can't do is to sell a Falcon
based product as if it were "completely" Yours, forgetting to cite, even
in a very small reading, the fact that Falcon is in. Finally, a thing
that the License prevents You from doing is to put the blame for failures
on Falcon: the product is provided as-is, without any warranty. It's up
to You to test if it is suitable to solve Your problems, and if a Falcon
based application can be sold and granted as "working" to Your customers.
If that application breaks, whether there's a problem with Falcon or not,
You can't issue any claim on the Falcon contributors.

Be kind on the Open Source Community: they have already made a lot
for You even if You don't know them (and even if they don't know You).